Magnificus zhiduoensis Yan, 2000

Grehan, John R., Mielke, Carlos G. C., Minet, Joël, Ignatev, Nikolai, Buchsbaum, Ulf & Xue, Dayong, 2021, Taxonomic composition and monophyly of the genus Magnificus (Lepidoptera Hepialoidea: Hepialidae), Zootaxa 4920 (3), pp. 339-358 : 348

Magnificus zhiduoensis Yan, 2000

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Magnificus zhiduoensis Yan (2000: 3) .— Wang & Yao (2011: 4)

Reference material. Holotype ♀, GAAH: China, Qinghai, Zhiduo, Deer farm, 4,400–4,600m, 22.VII.1996. Three paratypes, same location and date as holotype ( Fig. 6 ).

Original description ( Yan 2000). “Wingspan male: 45 mm female 53 mm. Labial palps two segmented on left and single segment on right [probably an aberration]; FW outer band with white reaching posterior margin; veins R2 and R3 shorter than stalk vein. Male HW anterior to medial cell and veins brown and grey, remainder white, and white patch at apical angle. Female HW brown and grey. Dorsal plate of female genitalia with medial V-shaped notch, subanal plate narrow and rectangular, antevaginalis dorsal margin with shallow points either side of shallow medial concavity, ventral margin medially broad and smooth, lateral angles narrow and lightly sclerotized.”

Etymology. Presumably derived from Zhiduo, the name of the type locality.

Remarks. Considered by Yan (2000) to be similar in appearance to M. jiuzhiensis where the posterior margin of the dorsal plate is dorsally broad ( Fig. 17 ) whereas the central notch in M. zhiduoensis ( Fig. 19 ) is narrowly triangular. The FW pattern ( Fig. 30h ) cannot be definitively distinguished from M. jiuzhiensis in the low-resolution image in Yan (2000).

Figures

FIGURE 30. Magnificus FW major banding patterns (coloured outlines). Wing veins—blue lines. FW illustrations 30g, h of limited quality. Higher resolution unavailable.

FIGURES 1–9. Adult moths: 1, Magnificus bouvieri male holotype, dorsal (MNHN); 2, M. dirschi male holotype, dorsal (MfN). Photo by Théo Léger; 3, M. miniatus female holotype, (a) dorsal, (b) ventral (IZAS). Photo by Dayong Xu; 4, M. regius: (a) female syntype (from Staudinger 1896, pl. 5, Fig. 11), (b) M. regius rubellus, male lectotype, dorsal (MfN). Photo by Théo Léger, (c) M. regius rubellus (ZSBS), Photo by Ulf Buchsbaum, (d) M. regius rubellus (MWM). Photo Nikolai Ignatev; 5, M. roseus: (a) holotype male, dorsal (MNHN). Photo by Joël Minet, (b) male, dorsal (ZSBS), Photo by Ulf Buchsbaum; 6, M. zhidu- oensis female holotype, dorsal [cropped image available only] (GAAH). Photo by Dayong Xue; 7, Magnificus sp. female, dorsal (MWM). Photo by Nikolai Ignatev; 8, Hepialus humuli, female, dorsal (Moscow, Russia SKC). Photo by Svyatoslav Knyazev; 9. Zenophassus schamyl, male, dorsal (Apsheronsk environs, Caucasus, Russia SKC). Photo by Svyatoslav Knyazev.

FIGURES 10–20. Genitalia. 10, Magnificus bouvieri male holotype genitalia, ventral view. Photo by Joël Minet; 11, Magnificus dirschi male holotype genitalia, ventral view. Photo by Théo Léger; 12, Magnificus regius genitalia: a, male syntype, ventral view, dissection ESN 2845(MfN). Photo by Théo Léger; b, male, ventral view (ZSBS). Photo by Ulf Buchsbaum; c, male, ventral (left) and lateral (right) (MWM). Photo by Nikolai Ignatev; 13, Magnificus roseus male genitalia, ventral view, (a) holotype (MNHN). Photo by Joël Minet, (b) (ZSBS). Photo by Ulf Buchsbaum; Fig. 16. Magnificus jiuzhiensis genitalia: (a) holotype male, ventral view (from Yan 2000); 15, ‘Hepialiscus sylvina Linnaeus, 1761’, male, ventral view (from Chu & Wang 1985b: fig. 31 and Zhu et al. 2004: fig. 120); 16, Magnificus jiuzhiensis, female external posterior view (from Yan 2000); 17, Magnificus miniatus female holotype external genitalia, posterior view. Photo by Dayong Xu; 18, Magnificus regius female external posterior and lateral interior view (MWM). Photo by Nikolai Ignatev; 19, Magnificus zhiduoensis female holotype external posterior view (from Yan 2000); 20, Magnificus sp. female external posterior view (MWM). Photo by Nikolai Ignatev.